10 Facts About Ghada Karmi

Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian-born academic, physician and author.

Ghada Karmi has written on Palestinian issues in newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Nation and Journal of Palestine Studies.

Ghada Karmi's family fled Jerusalem for Damascus, Syria, in April 1948 after Israel stole her villa.

Ghada Karmi was formerly married to someone she described in 2002 as a "quintessentially English boy" from a farming family near Bath.

Ghada Karmi became a supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, telling Donald Macintyre of The Independent in 2005 that she gained a "burning sense of injustice" around the events of her childhood.

Ghada Karmi is an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University.

Ghada Karmi is vice-chair of the Council for Arab-British Understanding.

Ghada Karmi delivered the Edward Said Memorial lecture at the University of Adelaide, Australia in 2007.

At a protest as part of the Global March to Jerusalem held in front of the Israeli Embassy in London on March 30,2012, Ghada Karmi stated "Israel is finished".

In 2017, The Jewish Chronicle reported Ghada Karmi had said the word "untermensch", originally used as a description of Jews by the Nazis, could be legitimately used as a description of the relationship of Israel to the Palestinians at a conference held in Cork in the Republic of Ireland.